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A significant later effort to collect and publish photos of the American Civil War in an almost duplicate manner as the 1911 release, was the National Historical Society's 2,768-page The Image of War, 1861–1865 in six volumes under the overall auspices of renowned Civil War historians William C. Davis and Bell I. Wiley as senior editors. [3]
The American Civil War was the first war in history whose intimate reality would be brought home to the public, not only in newspaper depictions, album cards and cartes-de-visite, but in a popular new 3D format called a "stereograph," "stereocard" or "stereoview." Millions of these cards were produced and purchased by a public eager to ...
The American Civil War (April 12, 1861 – May 26, 1865; also known by other names) was a civil war in the United States between the Union [e] ("the North") and the Confederacy ("the South"), which was formed in 1861 by states that had seceded from the Union.
1st Regiment Indiana Heavy Artillery was a heavy artillery regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War. It was nicknamed the "Jackass Regiment". Before being converted into an artillery unit in 1863, it served as the 21st Regiment, Indiana Volunteer Infantry.
Barnard's work is included in the American Memory collection, Selected Civil War Photographs from the Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., 1861–1865. [5] The J. Paul Getty Museum , in Los Angeles , has one of his works [ 2 ] and the MoMA also has his work in their collection.
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A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion (Des Moines, IA: Dyer Pub. Co.), 1908. Hill, Isaac J. A Sketch of the 29th Regiment of Connecticut Colored Troops (Baltimore: Printed by Daughtery, Maguire), 1867. McCain, Diana Ross. Connecticut's African American Soldiers in the Civil War, 1861-1865 (Hartford, CT: Connecticut Historical Commission), 2000.
Apart from being a marvel to contemporary Charlestonians, it was a strategic naval artillery platform that took part in the bombardment of Fort Sumter on April 12 and April 13, 1861, making it the first floating battery to engage in hostilities during the Civil War.